Re: [microsound] severed heads and you :) (forwarded message)

[Kenric McDowell <kenricm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> | It seems to me that, glitch in itself is stillborn. The little clicks and
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> | surface noise are the tartan bondage pants of the punk era, or the pink
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> | leg warmers of the 80's - simply a signpost of the current era.

I thought that was the point? Impossibility of making art in simulation
society. Reaction to technological excess. Evading personal accountability.
An inevitable result of the tools and the times.



> |What is
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> | worthy is the same emotive and melodic elements that underpin all music.

Absorption of aesthetic posthumanism into general pop music vocabulary.
Presaging absorption of posthuman ideology.


-km